Some smart analysis, as always, on the short and long-term impact of having one fewer rendering engine in the wild. Personally, I’m not terribly concerned about a “monoculture” of rendering engines. WebKit seems to have done a rather good job of innovating at a rapid clip and bringing a variety …
There’s a lot to like about The New Republic‘s redesign — it’s a bold, contemporary effort for a magazine that’s almost 100 years old. The Times has a look at what they’re doing to take on some their bigger challenges like circulation and, well, relevance.
Using webfonts for icons is all the rage these days and there a lot of great solutions, some free, some worth every penny of what you’d pay to use them. IcoMoon takes this one step further by letting you create your own custom font set of only the icons you …
As thorough and in-depth look at using CSS transitions as I’ve ever seen, by Alex MacCaw.
Hopefully, you set a little time aside during the holidays to take in the NY Times’ incredible longform story about the avalanche at Tunnel Creek. Source, itself an excellent thing, talked to the graphics team that made it.
Media queries are great for letting us adapt our designs to different screen sizes and device capabilities. However, as you probably know, the browser still downloads every CSS file, which in turn loads things like background images. On a slow connection on a lower-powered device, like a smartphone, this can …
Remember The Guardian’s new responsive mobile site from a couple of weeks ago? On their developer blog, they laid out some of the data they used to help their decision making. It’s a quick, fascinating look at the incredible rise of mobile devices in general and an interesting perspective on …
It’s been quite a week for online publishing. Craig Mod published a great, thinky piece on the state of digital publishing today, setting what is sure to be a baseline for anyone thinking of starting an online magazine (that baseline, Mod argues, very much resembles Marco Arment’s The Magazine). Which …
The redesigned iTunes 11 hit yesterday with what web designers will recognize as some responsive flourishes in the layout. Previous versions did little more than reflow thumbnails or just list everything in a table. I’d say the new iTunes is more responsive than even the more web-native Rdio. Nice to …
It’s an interesting approach: instead of going “full responsive”, they’ve opted for a responsive mobile site (with some server-side detection help) for smartphones and tablets up to seven inches. It looks great on a phone, it’s a bit more problematic on tablets. For one, detecting the difference between an iPad …